2 Corinthians and grad school

For small group we are in the book of 2 Corinthians. In this letter Paul, for the most part, is defending himself to the Corinthians. They have compared him to these "super apostles" who said all the right things, had great reputations, and had a steady income for their work. Paul on the other hand, wasn't always eloquent, wasn't an impressive man in person, was beat up, shipwrecked, poor, hungry, and spread thin by his ministry. And yet who did the Lord work through? Who was given wisdom and understanding of truth? Paul says, "For the sake of Christ I am content with weakness, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong." (12:10). 

Paul is no different than the men that God has used throughout redemptive history to do His work. Moses was not an eloquent man, and yet God used him to bring His people out of captivity. Abraham and Sarah were old, and he used them to be the father and mother of His nation. Joseph was captured, made a slave, and then a criminal, before God placed him in a position to preserve an entire nation. God works like this, in seemingly impossible circumstances through weak, unassuming people to accomplish His ends. So that the surpassing power will be of God and not of ourselves. 

How sweet a reminder to have in this season. It seems more and more impossible each day that passes that we will be able to go to Trinity or even Dallas. There are so many details, and question after question keeps coming up. I don't see how we will find housing, work, and the means to pay for school in such a short time frame. But if God wants to do it, He will. And He is setting up circumstances where I will have no choice but to say that it was by God's power we will get where we are going. He alone could work out all the kinks in just the right time. So, if we make it to grad school in the fall, the glory will belong to God alone. And that's just as it should be. When I am weak, the earthen vessel that I am, then I am strong.